Pursuant to the Home Rule Charter and Section 1502 of
the First Class Township Code,[1] for the purpose of securing and promoting the public health, comfort,
convenience, safety, welfare and the peace and quiet of Cheltenham Township
and its residents, the Board of Commissioners of the Township of Cheltenham
has determined that:

The making and creation of loud, unnecessary and unusual
noises within the limits of the Township is a condition which has existed
for some time, and the extent and volume of such noises is increasing.

The making, creation and maintenance of loud, unnecessary
or unusual noises which are prolonged, unusual or unnatural in their time,
place or use, regardless of the intent, does affect and is a detriment to
the public health, comfort, convenience, safety, repose, welfare or prosperity
of the residents and persons within the Township.

The necessity in the public interest for the provisions
and prohibitions hereinafter contained and enacted is declared as a matter
of legislative determination and public policy, and it is further declared
that the provisions and prohibitions hereinafter contained and enacted are
in pursuance of and for the purpose of securing and promoting the public health,
comfort, convenience, safety, repose, welfare and prosperity and the peace
and quiet of the Township of Cheltenham and its inhabitants and persons within
its limits.

Includes but is not limited to actual or threatened enemy attack,
sabotage, extraordinary fire, flood, storm, epidemic or other impending or
actual calamity endangering or threatening to endanger health, life or property
or constituted government.

A Fire Department vehicle, police vehicle, sheriff vehicle, ambulance,
blood-delivery vehicle, armed forces emergency vehicle, one vehicle operated
by a Coroner or Chief County Medical Examiner and one vehicle operated by
a Chief Deputy Coroner or Deputy Chief County Medical Examiner used for answering
emergency calls, or any other vehicle designated by the State Police under
Section 6106 of the Vehicles Code,[1] or a privately owned vehicle used in answering an emergency call
when used by any of the following:

Any sound which annoys, disturbs or perturbs reasonable persons with
normal sensitivities; or any sound which injures or endangers the comfort,
repose, health, hearing, peace or safety of other persons.

Any machine or device for the amplification of the human voice, music
or any other sound. "Sound-amplifying equipment," as used herein, shall not
be construed as including standard automobile radios when used and heard only
by occupants of the vehicle in which installed, nor warning devices on authorized
emergency vehicles nor horns or other warning devices on other vehicles and
only for traffic safety purposes.

No person shall sound unnecessarily any horn or any signaling
device on any vehicle, automobile, motorcycle, motor bicycle or other vehicle
in any street or public place of the Township except as a danger warning signal.
Doing so will constitute disorderly conduct.

No person shall operate any vehicle in the Township,
licensed or unlicensed, on public or private premises, whether standing or
moving, without an appropriate muffler on the exhaust system of said vehicle
in order to prevent noise disturbance or disorderly conduct.

No person shall use, operate or permit to be played any
radio receiving set, musical instrument, television, phonograph, public address
system or other machine or device for producing or reproducing sound in such
a manner as to cause a noise disturbance or disorderly conduct. The operation
of any such instrument in such a manner as to be plainly audible at a distance
of 150 feet from the noise source shall be a noise disturbance or disorderly
conduct.

No person shall create any noise disturbance or disorderly
conduct on any street adjacent to any school, institution of learning, church,
hospital or any public building, while the same are in use, which unreasonably
interferes with the workings of such institution or which results in excessive
noise for pupils, churchgoers, patients or others inside said building.

Loafing, loitering, lounging or congregating in such
a manner as to interfere with the free passage of the traveling public or
annoy the public by means of remarks or conduct of any improper nature will
constitute disorderly conduct.

No person shall use or cause to be used any sound truck
with its sound-amplifying equipment in operation for any noncommercial purpose
in the Township of Cheltenham until such person shall have filed with the
Township Manager, in duplicate, a statement containing the following information:

The operation of a sound truck requires a permit. Each
permit shall be valid for a maximum ten-day period. Upon receipt of the permit
fee, to be set forth from time to time by resolution of the Board of Commissioners,[1] the Township Manager shall return to the person making the statement
one copy of such statement with the Manager's permission for the requested
operation endorsed thereon, and the copy shall be duly certified by the Township
Manager as a correct copy thereof. Such certified copy of such statement shall
be in the possession of any person operating the sound truck at all times
while the sound-amplifying equipment of such truck is in operation within
the Township, and such copy shall be promptly displayed to a Township police
officer upon request.

Sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated unless
the sound truck upon which such equipment is mounted is operated at a speed
of at least 10 miles per hour, except that when said truck is stopped by traffic,
said sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated for longer than one
minute at such stop.

The volume of sound shall be controlled so that it will
not be audible for a distance in excess of 100 yards from the sound truck
and so that the volume is not unreasonably loud, raucous, jarring, disturbing
or a nuisance to persons within the area of audibility.

Noise caused in the performance of emergency work for
the immediate safety, health or welfare of the community or persons of the
community or to restore property to a safe condition following a disaster
shall not be subject to the provisions of this article. The use of stationary
emergency signaling devices shall be for emergency use only.

The Township Manager may grant specific and temporary
exceptions to the provisions of this article upon receipt of a written application
requesting such exception. The application shall state the nature of the violation
and the reason for the request. No exceptions shall be granted for a period
exceeding one year from the date of the request. Any person affected by any
noise source for which an application for exception has been filed may also
submit information to the Commissioners in favor of or in opposition to the
proposed exception.

Any person found guilty of violating any provisions of this article
shall, for each offense, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be fined
a sum of not more than $600. Each day that a violation continues shall be
considered as a separate offense and shall be separately punishable.